Hi all. I wanted to let everyone know about two exciting announcements. At MMS, the MOF team has announced the relesae of Microsoft Operations Framework 4.0 and the new MOF Online Community Forums , a new online home for the discussion of of all things...

Did you know that MOF materials are also available in Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Japanese? Because MOF is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution License, anyone can take the materials and adapt them for their own use as long as they give...

IT business planning is an increasing important topic in the world of today's IT professional. We continuously see problems arising from not including IT operations early enough in the planning process which leads to services being designed with little...

Picking up from the last posting where I detailed our overall approach to the IT Service Lifecycle and briefly discussed the purposes of each of the four phases, today I wanted to drill into a bit more detail into the Plan and Optimize (P&O) phase...

The Frameworks team continued its journey along the winding road to Hana by releasing a significant beta update this past Friday. With this release we have now released initial versions of every core Service Management Function (SMF) with the exception...

The MOF Update has now moved into the earliest stages of our beta / Request for Comment period and as such has graduated from the generic MOF Update name to an official Microsoft codename. All of the update work to Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF...

Development has continued at a frenzied pace over the past couple of months on the MOF update and we do have some work to show for it. But before I present the MOF IT Service Lifecycle, its phases, and our new graphic, I'd like to review a few of our...

You may wonder why a service management framework, or service lifecycle, would be built on the foundation of IT Governance. After all, governance isn't one of the sexiest or most enjoyable topics for the average IT pro. Yet, it can't be denied that corporate...

Today someone posed the rather straightforward question of who is the true audience for MOF, and why we'd focus entirely on the IT pro? That's a very good question and it raises the point that I don't think we've done a good job to date in articulating...

Hi All,
One of the first things people realize when looking at implementing a service management framework, whether it is ITIL, MOF, or another, is that they must not only be adopted but also adapted to your individual organization's needs. You have...

Our latest collection of beta releases are now available for download. We hope you’ll take the time to preview and provide feedback on these new materials.
These materials will provide organizations with the resources to apply MOF guidance...

The Microsoft Operations Framework team is pleased to announce that the Managing and Operating a Microsoft Private Cloud—How to Apply the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) guide is now available for download.
Download the guide now at http...

One of the goals I had when I first came to the Frameworks team at Microsoft was to open up the dialogue between the people writing the guidance and the people consuming the guidance - our customers, our partners, and our field. Over the past 18 months...

We have now spent some time talking about IT Governance as well as the Business IT Planning phase of the lifecycle and so I wanted to jump ahead a bit from planning straight into the Operations and Support phase of the lifecycle, with emphasis on the...

Since I had promised a quick follow-up posting to the Operations and Support blog from last week, I wanted to explain my lack of postings. Earlier this week, my wife gave birth to our first child and as a consequence I am currently occupied with adapting...

We’re pleased to announce our latest release, a new series of Reliability Workbooks. These initial components of the MOF Technology Library was created to address the important need for guidance on the daily challenges of maintaining and monitoring specific...

Looking for the tools to deliver effective service management training?
If any of the following statements describe you, we think you’d benefit from taking an early look at the new MOF 4.0 Foundations Course:
· You deliver service management...

We’re excited to announce the release of new materials centered on service management of the Dynamic Datacenter. These resources build upon the guidance offered in MOF 4.0 and the component-level MOF reliability workbooks, providing specific examples...

Thanks in part to your participation at every stage of its development, a new MOF implementation guide is now available for download.
The Getting Started with MOF 4.0 guide is the first step to a more efficient MOF implementation. The guide provides...

I realize the MOF blog has been quiet recently and I wanted to let everyone know why. As the Quick Start Kit announcement I just posted shows, the MOF team is still hard at work at producing new IP for your consumption and will be continuing to build...

We’re continuing to extend core MOF content with two new companion guides: Cross Reference ITIL®V3 and MOF 4.0 and Using MOF for ISO/IEC 20000. These guides compare MOF with some of IT’s most widely used service management guidance. They’ll give you:...

The Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) team is excited to announce the first release in a new series of MOF Action Plans. Download the premier release now:
MOF Action Plan- Redistributing the Workload
IT pros are faced daily with challenges that...

I've received several follow-up e-mails asking where the Companion Guides can be found and two of them are indeed available. The MOF IT Compliance Companion Guide is released and can be downloaded here . The MOF Planning for Software + Services Guide...

The MOF team has recently released a new tool to get you up and running with MOF 4.0. The MOF IT Pro Quick Start Kit is now available for download . The kit includes overview presentations, podcasts, and data sheets, as well as information on MOF and...